USS Biddle (DD-151)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Biddle.

USS Biddle underway
History
United States
NameBiddle
BuilderWilliam Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Cost$1,449,111.62 (hull and machinery)[1]
Yard number466
Laid down22 April 1918
Launched3 October 1918
Commissioned22 April 1919
Decommissioned20 June 1922
Recommissioned16 October 1939
Decommissioned5 October 1945
ReclassifiedAG-114, 30 June 1945
Stricken24 October 1945
FateSold for scrapping 3 December 1946
General characteristics
Class and typeWickes-class destroyer
Displacement1,154 tons
Length314 ft 5 in (95.8 m)
Beam31 ft 8 in (9.7 m)
Draft9 ft 0 in (2.7 m)
Speed35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement159 officers and enlisted
Armament

USS Biddle (DD-151) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II, later reclassified AG-114. She was the second ship named for Captain Nicholas Biddle.

  1. ^ "Table 21 - Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 762. 1921.